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...anyway, i was just rooting round brighton's main shopping street looking for a CD lens cleaner for my friend...
...when suddenly there's police everwhere, and the shop's being evacuated. and we're all herded behind a barrier. when i talked to the policeman at the cordon, all he could say was that there was a suspect device, and no one was getting thru no way no how.
since, i've heard that they BLEW UP A CAR. as a precaution. it's weird - security down here is very, very tight right now, barriers everywhere, policepeople in body armour toting semi-auto machineguns...
but walking the long, circuitous way home (all this 5mins from my house), it struck me more forcibly than ever how catastrophic a bomb in a city centre could be. and how it could never be considered a political act, because the end could not possibly justify the means, the death of innocents would have to cancel out any 'statement'.
of course, i knew this already. but it brought it home to me. how absolutely indefensible such an act would be. looking around at all the bratty teenagers and zoned-out pensioners and just - people. civilians. just -
more than ever, it reminded me that we must take issue with the leaders - and seek only to educate the people. yes, the chronic imbalance world power rests upon is largely attributable to the unquestioning support the people of the fist world countries give to their leaders - but IGNORANCE DOES NOT EQUAL STUPIDITY.
we can put the blame for the actions of the governments on the governments themselves. but we must put the widespread ignorance of the real conditions behind the media dream onto ourselves - those who know (or think they know) the real resons, the bigger picture.
i don't know what else to say. apologies if this is borderline incoherent. more an empathic reaction than anything. |
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